Hi all, I saw a couple posts on this matter on other lists namely from people who are trying to make multimedia Linux boxes using CCRMA packages and RH 8.0. The issue at hand is that many of the newer machines with cheapo embedded video cards use Intel 845G chipset which is unsupported by RH 8.0's XFree 4.2. However, XFree 4.3 does support it and so the following needs to be done (assumption is that you have a reasonably fast internet connection, otherwise this might prove to be pain -- total d/l amount is approx. 70MB): 1) Install RH 8.0 in command-line mode (graphics mode will most likely fail -- it did on mine, although it might have been partially due to use of an outdated flatscreen monitor that did not allow even the framebuffer mode) 2) Skip XFree config (if you really feel compelled to configure it, do NOT test it, it WILL fail) 3) Upon reboot, using Internet connection, connect to the following ftp in order to retrieve XFree 4.3 version of the x server for the RH 8.0 (you might try the Rawhide mirrors as well but I am not sure whether those will work): ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86 (thanks to Mike Harris from Redhat for making them) 4) Install XFree packages by doing: rpm -Uvh *.rpm --nodeps --force (don't worry it should be ok, at least it was on mine :-) 5) configure up2date 6) run: up2date glibc (you need 2.3.2 for Xfree 4.3, and the one that comes with RH is 2.2.something) 7) Upon finishing installation, run: redhat-config-xfree86 -o /etc/X11/XF86Config (you might need to tinker with the config file, depending on your monitor and other hw) 8) Try starting x server with: startx 9) Now, you should be up and running, but you still need to enable acceleration (since otherwise anything with OpenGL will be simply impossible to use). You need to get the new version of DRI (which reports errors since the kernel module i830.o is ver.1.2 not 1.3 as required by Xfree4.3). So go download new DRI package for 4.3 from here: http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/linux-drm-4.3.0-kernelsource.tar.gz (big thanks to Leif Delgass for pointing this out) 10) untar the package and make the new module by doing: make -f Makefile.linux 11) install the i830.o file by copying it to the /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/drivers/char/drm/ (you might wanna backup the old module to something like old-i830.o just in case something screws up) 12) Now reboot the machine and check the /var/log/XFree86.0.log for any DRI errors. You might also wanna run the glxgears or something similar to see if everything is ok. Don't expect much of a fps increase, though (I had 336 fps on the studio's 2.4GHz P4 machine, while with DRI it went up to only 400+ fps). What you will, however, see is the smoother moving the OpenGL window around the desktop and generally better system responsiveness. Now I can even play the Tuxracer at a reasonable framerate. Yay! That's it. Hope someone finds this helpful. Cheers! Ivica Ico Bukvic http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico
